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Robert Tait

@rstait

Guardian journalist in Washington DC. Used to be Tehran, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Prague and a few other places. Tired but not yet clapped out.

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@alirezanader.bsky.social Can you follow me back please? I would like to direct message you.

14.02.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@goftaniha.bsky.social Can you follow me back please. I would like to send you a personal message.

04.02.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t recognise the background despite my local knowledge. Where is this?

08.01.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The full term was β€œbrazenly audacious.” Which might equally describe your demand for an apology given that I don’t know who you are. You may consider that to be a final answer to your question.

06.01.2026 11:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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They Killed My Source A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... This is an incredible piece about the thrill and deadly dangers of espionage and betrayal.

09.12.2025 20:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Whole thing an embarrassment.

09.12.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But it’s not one-way. I’m struck by the many Britishisms now commonplace here that were never heard when I first visited these shores.

03.11.2025 22:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lordy.

10.09.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And track two. It’s not a β€œtrack” in the sense that it would be recognised on hearing.

18.05.2025 03:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s no tack called β€œtubular bells”? It’s the album itself that has that title and is his best known work.

18.05.2025 03:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Break On Through is far from being the best known Doors track. On the contrary, at risk of being overlooked in any compilation of their highlights. And Tubular Bells wasn’t a β€œfirst track” but the title of an entire concept album, so really shouldn’t be considered as part of such a list.

18.05.2025 02:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I doubt that but I do my best.

01.05.2025 12:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t think it was very well circulated. I went to the forum and told them I was surprised that it hadn’t been sent to me beforehand. I had to ask them to email it to me.

01.05.2025 11:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this a metaphor for events in certain other parts of the world?

29.03.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Way better than his Live Aid performance.

18.03.2025 22:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. Americans totally spooked. It’s the mood of the times here.

06.03.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Correct. But the whole thing was surely a set up in advance.

28.02.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The perfectly timed social media post.

28.02.2025 19:59 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Four essentials for the press right now If we have any hope of preventing a full slide into permanent autocracy, these must happen

"Big Journalism’s leaders need to think hard β€” and fast β€” about whether they are just presenting facts or actually getting the nightmarish reality across." @sulliview.bsky.social

MUST READ. ⬇️

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/four-essen...

17.02.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s the β€œand Germany” bit that has my eyes popping. Stuck in a cultural stereotype time warp surely.

11.02.2025 02:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-... Tim Snyder on the need Stand Up Now.

04.02.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThis is likely a lie” is not a line you ever see in news journalism - a discipline with which you clearly have scant familiarity. Now kindly acquire a life - or go for a walk in the traffic. Journalists didn’t cause Trump.

28.01.2025 01:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely. I’ve written such things many times. Obviously, Mr/Ms Anonymous.

28.01.2025 01:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Let me help you. The word you’re grasping for is β€œsorry.” Save your rage for where it’s needed. Or maybe put some of your professional successes on display to let us see your qualifications to judge.

28.01.2025 01:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I merely report. Neither stupid nor naive. And less inclined than you to be insulting towards total strangers.

28.01.2025 01:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Don’t be triumphalist. Some of us are in distant lands.

27.01.2025 19:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Frustrating? It’s terrifying. Like a scene from Hitchcock.

22.01.2025 10:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wasn’t reporting on his speech but on his earlier farewell letter, in which he made no comments on oligarchy, etc. Those comments were reserved for the speech, which was covered in a later report by another journalist.

16.01.2025 10:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran hostages reflect on a crisis that defined Jimmy Carter’s presidency: β€˜A fine man that did his best’ When revolutionary students seized the US embassy in Tehran, they initiated a 444-day ordeal that had a huge impact on Carter in both political and human terms

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

08.01.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your basis of knowledge and expertise is zero and opinion worthless and devoid of validity. Delete your account and leave the platform. And perhaps spend some time searching for a better purpose in life - though that’s up to you. Your funeral.

06.01.2025 10:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0